Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OpenSesame is transforming workforce development through an AI-powered marketplace of skill-building courses and learning pathways. The Applied AI Engineer will build and scale modular tools, intelligent workflows, and production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems for internal business operations, while improving engineering rigor, automation, monitoring, and self-service capabilities across departments.
Responsibilities
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the current Workforce Reinvention architecture, codebase, deployment pipeline, and existing AI proofs-of-concept while building strong working relationships with AI Champions in Sales, Marketing, and Finance
- Within the first month, successfully contribute and deploy a small but meaningful workflow improvement, automation script, or enhancement to an active internal tool while demonstrating the ability to operate within the team’s TDD and CI/CD practices and release processes
- Take ownership of deploying a production-grade RAG workflow or intelligent internal tool built from a previously validated concept, ensuring the solution is stable, maintainable, and valuable to internal stakeholders
- Partner closely with AI Champions to identify and prioritize workflow bottlenecks while beginning to establish reusable modular automation blocks and standardized development patterns that form the foundation of a scalable enterprise component library
- Lead improvements to the CI/CD pipeline that significantly reduce manual deployment steps, improve release reliability, and accelerate software delivery across automation initiatives
- Begin implementing infrastructure-as-code practices using tools such as Terraform while introducing robust monitoring, logging, and observability standards that improve system reliability, track operational costs, and support a target uptime of 99.9% for critical internal automation APIs and workflows
- Fully establish and maintain a reusable component library that enables rapid deployment of AI-driven and traditional automation workflows across multiple business units while empowering AI Champions to safely self-serve and scale departmental solutions independently
- Create a sustainable operational model where engineering maintains stable infrastructure, automated testing eliminates operational toil, documentation supports non-technical users, and intelligent workflows become a dependable force multiplier across the organization
- Successfully turns experimental AI ideas into scalable production systems that improve operational efficiency across OpenSesame
- Builds reliable, maintainable automation frameworks that internal teams can confidently use and expand on
- Becomes a trusted technical partner to AI Champions and helps create a scalable automation ecosystem that increases productivity across the company
Skills
- This position can be based anywhere in the US
- All positions can be based anywhere in the US, and require up to 15 days of travel per year, with senior management and leadership teams requiring up to 35 days
Benefits
- Professional development
- Incentive stock options (ISOs)
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Volunteer time off
- Employee Resource Groups
- A generous professional development program with dedicated annual time off for learning and growth
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Hands-on training with AI tools and clear guardrails to experiment responsibly
Company Overview